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1—10 <br />Orange County Comprehensive Parks and Recreation Master Plan <br />CHAPTER 1 - Summary of the Plan 1 Recommendations <br />Using the 20 Findings identffied in the master plan, <br />and assessing the current status of park planning via <br />the framework of the park system as has been <br />developed over the past 15 years, the Master Plan <br />makes nine recommendatfons moving forward to <br />the year 2030: <br /> <br />Recommendation 1 - Protect and Enhance Invest- <br />ment in Parks and Open Spaces: <br />The County currently operates six parks repre- <br />sentfng an investment of over $9 million, and has <br />helped fund municipal parks by contributfng over <br />$6.5 million to these facilitfes. Future phases at the <br />six open County parks are planned, and some of the <br />facilitfes built will begin to age out over tfme. <br />Operatfon and maintenance costs are ongoing and <br />critfcally important to the park experience. The <br />County should contfnue to protect its investment in <br />the existfng parks by funding facility replacement, <br />future phases and operatfng costs. <br /> <br />Recommendation 2 – Build the Planned Future <br />Parks: <br />Because the County has been so proactfve in <br />identffying and acquiring future park sites, several <br />future sites have been secured for future use and <br />these new park projects are included in the County’s <br />Capital Investment Plan. Orange County should <br />commit to opening the planned new parks as shown <br />in Table 10-1 within 10 years (by the year 2024), <br />with two of the parks opened within 5 years (by <br />2019). <br /> <br />Recommendation 3 – Complete the Protection of <br />Identified Nature Preserves and Create Access <br />Areas and Trails Within the Preserves: <br />Working through the Lands Legacy program and <br />other conservatfon partners, the County has three <br />identffied locatfons where nature preserves exist or <br />have been started with the possibility of expansion – <br />the Upper Eno preserve, the New Hope Preserve <br />and the Jordan Lake Headwaters Preserve. The <br />primary purpose of these preserves is to protect <br />important natural lands, but opportunitfes exist – <br />and should be pursued – to provide for public access <br />on the less sensitfve portfons of the sites through <br />careful site planning. <br />Recommendation 4 – Formalize and Build Support <br />Structure for Multi-Partner Capital Facilities: <br />Over the past 16 years, the towns and County have <br />worked together to construct a number of parks and <br />open space areas, primarily County funding toward <br />constructfon of town-owned and operated facilitfes. <br />Similarly, the use of school facilitfes for recreatfon <br />programs occurs in some locatfons. Greater <br />opportunitfes for joint ventures appear both possi- <br />ble and prudent. In some cases, towns are running <br />out of land for new parks, and the County owns <br />parkland nearby. Design of new school facilitfes <br />could occur with joint use in mind, rather than after <br />the fact. In additfon, opportunitfes with OWASA, <br />state parks and the two local educatfonal <br />instftutfons (UNC and Duke) appear to exist. All of <br />these partfes have mutual interests that may be <br />served by greater collaboratfon, and the tfme may <br />have come to make this collaboratfon more formal. <br /> <br />Recommendation 5 – Develop a Master Plan for <br />the Orange County segment of the Statewide <br />Mountains-to-Sea Trail: <br />The Mountains to Sea Trail (MST) is part of the State <br />Parks system and will link Clingman’s Dome in the <br />Great Smoky Mountains to Jockey’s Ridge on the <br />Outer Banks. While many portfons of the trail <br />network have been developed and are in use, the <br />eastern Piedmont segment remains the most <br />complicated due to the need to traverse an area <br />without natural features (rivers) or public lands. The <br />plan for the MST calls for it to enter Orange County <br />at the southwest from the Haw River Trail, and con- <br />nect via Hillsborough into Eno River State Park and <br />thence to Falls Lake. The MST, which in rural areas <br />may be only a natural path a few feet wide, contains <br />a planned segment from OWASA-owned lands <br />around Cane Creek Reservoir to the Upper Eno Pre- <br />serve near Hillsborough. This segment will require <br />careful planning with property owners and utflitfes. <br />A master plan for the trail is needed to pinpoint the <br />trail’s path through this area. A solutfon should be <br />identffied (whether on private lands, public roads or <br />some combinatfon thereof) so that Orange County <br />does not become the gap in the NC MST. <br />. <br />24
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